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The Return of the Outlaw Billy the Kid (Western History)

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This book is an excellent explanation of the case for Brushy Bill Roberts as Billy the Kid. The authors do a good job of seperating fact from fiction and using all available information to dig to the bottom of Brushy Bill's identity. Before I traveled to Hico, Texas and purchased this book, I didn't beleive the claim of Brushy Bill. Even though I am still not %100 convinced about Brushy Bill, I believe the evidence is heavily on his side. It seems to me that the authors and supporters of Brushy Bill as Billy The Kid have been tormented and shunned by the supporters of Pat Garrett and the New Mexico travel industry. Through all of this torment, the supporters of Brushy Bill have stood firm. You should decide who is on the right side of this battle for yourself. You dont even have to go to Hico, Texas to get it like I did.

At last, some solid science has been applied to the controversy regarding who was killed by Pat Garrett. William Henry "Bushy Bill" Roberts was Billy the Kid, as shown by the computer comparisons of faces conducted by the University of Texas, making them a statistical "match". This is a noteworthy continuation of the work by Harvard Ph.D. Charles L. Sonnichsen who wrote Alias Billy the Kid in 1955, showing Roberts could quite possibly be the Kid. Now computer science has answered the long-debated question. Garrett shot the wrong man. All these years people have relied on the doubtful word of Ash Upson and his fanciful tale of a Robin Hood-type figure, with no facts to support any of his claims regarding the Kid. This is a compelling book filled with facts and statistically valid comparisons of the two images. Only the die-hards now believe the Kid is buried at Fort Sumner. He lies in a pauper's grave in Hamilton County, Texas, having died peacefully of a heart attack in 1950. Garrett, and his ghost writer Upson, were both frauds, and modern science has given us undeniable proof. A great read for those with an open mind!!

BRUSHY BILL DID NOT SEEK ATTENTION TO HIS REAL IDENITY, HE TRIED TO HIDE IT ALL HIS LIFE, ONCE BILL MORRISON CONFRONTED HIM HE ACKNOWLEDGED WHO HE WAS...HE KNEW TO MUCH ABOUT LINCOLN COUNTY WAR TO HAVE NOT BEEN THERE. HIS GENEALOGY HAS ESTABLISHED ALL OF THE SURNAMES HE USED AND ANYBODY THAT HAS READ THIS BOOK AND THE 4 BOOKS WRITTEN ABOUT HIM WOULD HAVE TO CONCLUDE THAT HE WAS THE KID. I HAVE READ ALL 5 BOOKS THAT I KNOW OF THAT DEAL WITH BRUSHY BILL AND AFTER READING THE FIRST 4, THAN READING THE RETURN OF THE OUTLAW BILLY THE KID I'M MORE CONVINCED THAN EVER OF WHO HE WAS. TRADITIONAL HISTORY SHOULD BE RE-WRITTEN. POLITICS & MONEY DEMAND THAT THE TRUTH NOT BE KNOWN. LINCOLN NEW MEXICO'S BIGGEST MONEY MAKER IS THE BILLY THE KID LEGEND AND, IF THE TRUTH WERE KNOWN THEY WOULD NO LONGER HAVE THE TOURIST FLOCKING TO LINCOLN. W.C. JAMESON & FREDERIC BEAN DID AN EXCELLENT JOB OF PICKING UP WHERE THR OTHER AUTHORS LEFT OFF.

The book is great, if you want to know the real truth! forget internet sites!!
Skeptics believe Brushy Bill was born in 1868, 1869, or 1879. WRONG! his Mother died in 1862 which makes it IMPOSSIBLE.
People continue looking up information on Oliver P. Roberts. why? There is a false family Bible at the museum in Ft. Sumner that lists Oliver P. Roberts as being born in 1879. For some strange reason many believe this is Brushy. However, they ignore that Oliver P. Roberts was not Brushy's real name or even an alias of his. Brushy went by the alias of Ollie L. Roberts, but never Oliver P. Roberts. Brushy had a cousin named Olliver L. Roberts, who was born in 1867, and Brushy took his name as an alias after Ollie L. died.
J. Frank Dalton was the Jesse James fraud, not Brushy. J. Frank Dalton & Brushy Bill were not friends.
Brushy could speak fluent Spanish. i don't know why the real deluded ones think he couldn't, because it is recorded? why must people argue proof? it's beyond me.
Fact of the matter is, He was the Kid. evidence hangs on Brushy's side more than made up lies on internet sites about Oliver P. Roberts (who has no relation to Billy/Brushy).
time to re-write the history books.

BRUSHY BILL DID NOT SEEK ATTENTION TO HIS REAL IDENITY, HE TRIED TO HIDE IT ALL HIS LIFE, ONCE BILL MORRISON CONFRONTED HIM HE ACKNOWLEDGED WHO HE WAS. HE KNEW TO MUCH ABOUT THE LINCOLN COUNTY WAR TO HAVE NOT BEEN THERE. HIS GENEALOGY HAS ESTABLISHED ALL OF THE SURNAMES THE KID USED. ANYBODY THAT HAS READ THIS BOOK AND THE FOUR PREVIOUS BOOKS WRITTEN ABOUT HIM WOULD HAVE TO CONCLUDE THAT HE WAS THE KID. I HAVE READ ALL 5 BOOKS (THAT I KNOW OF) THAT DEAL WITH BRUSHY BILL AND AFTER READING THE FIRST 4, THAN READING THE RETURN OF THE OUTLAW BILLY THE KID I'M MORE CONVINCED THAN EVER OF WHO HE WAS. TRADITIONAL HISTORY SHOULD BE RE-WRITTEN. POLITICS & MONEY DEMAND THAT THE TRUTH NOT BE KNOWN. LINCOLN NEW MEXICO'S BIGGEST MONEY MAKER IS THE BILLY THE KID LEGEND AND, IF THE TRUTH WERE KNOWN THEY WOULD NO LONGER HAVE THE TOURIST FLOCKING TO LINCOLN. W.C. JAMESON & FREDERIC BEAN DID AN EXCELLENT JOB OF PICKING UP WHERE THR OTHER AUTHORS LEFT OFF. EXCELLENT BOOK OF HISTORICAL VALUE.

I REALLY ENJOYED THE BOOK. I BELIEVE BRUSHY WAS BILLY THE KID. THE DETAILS ABOUT CERTAIN EVENTS WHICH BRUSHY COULD RECALL WAS RATHER INCREDIBLE. I BELIEVE HIS CLAIMS. BRUSHY CAN NOT BE DISMISSED AS AN IMPOSTOR BECAUSE THE EVIDENCE WILL NOT ALLOW IT. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT IF BRUSHY WAS NOT BILLY THE KID THAT HE WOULD BE EASILY DISPROVEN. ITS ABOUT 50 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH AND HE IS STILL BEING TALKED ABOUT. I HAD ALWAYS WONDERED WHY PAT GARRETT DID NOT HAVE THE CORPSE OF BILLY THE KID PHOTOGRAPHED. HE COULD HAVE VERY EASILY. I THINK THE ANSWER IS OBVIOUS. HE NEVER SHOT AND KILLED BILLY THE KID BECAUSE HE DIED AN OLD MAN IN HICO, TEXAS.

Brushy Bill Roberts was an imposter. As a teenager, he claimed to be Jesse James. As an old man, he claimed to be Billy the Kid, but he couldn't speak Spanish while the real Billy was fluent, and he was too young to be the real Billy. Plus, to believe his story, you would have to believe that the two or three hundred residents of Fort Sumner who saw the real Billy laid out at his wake kept quiet, every last one of them, until they, too, joined Billy in the great hereafter. Anyone who believes Brushy Bill is as deluded as he was.